[ale] kernel 3.2 panics

[Alex Carver]

Everything is in place except for IDE drivers.   The old kernel 2.6 has
the entire IDE tree listed (ide-core.ko, ide-generic, etc.).  The new
3.2 kernel has no IDE tree of modules.  It does have the ATA tree which
has all the PATA drivers listed and so does the 2.6 image.  For the rest
of the hardware everything looks good.  Network card is an Intel e100
which is in both kernels, video is standard VGA (machine runs headless
anyway so it always uses the console driver).  It has the standard
parallel ports (parport.ko) (serial I guess gets loaded later, neither
kernel has it listed inside initrd).

On 2014-06-24 13:11, Boris Borisov wrote:
> Can you compare both init RAM disk image to see what drivers are included ?
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> So it's chocking trying to find the / partition. Verify the new kernel has
>> the identical grub line as the old one except for kernel and initrd
>> versions?
>> On Jun 24, 2014 3:51 PM, "Alex Carver" <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Pentium 2 is good for PAE.  So now it's down to figuring out what else
>>> could be going wrong.
>>>
>>> On 2014-06-24 06:23, Alex Carver wrote:
>>>> Good point, I'll need to check.  That's what Debian itself is attempting
>>>> to install without user input.  The running kernel is too old for pae
>>>> (2.6.39).
>>>>
>>>> On 2014-06-24 02:30, JD wrote:
>>>>> s/par/pae/
>>>>>
>>>>> Autocorrect was too helpful.
>>>>>
>>>>> On June 24, 2014 5:24:36 AM EDT, JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Does a p2 support par?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On June 23, 2014 10:05:23 PM EDT, Alex Carver
>>>>>> <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> wrote:
>>>>>>> I was just getting around to upgrading my older P2 system and Debian
>>>>>>> wants to install the kernel image 3.2.0-4-686-pae.  However, it
>>> always
>>>>>>> panics at boot with the unable to mount root at unknown-block(0,0).
>>>>>>> I've searched quite a bit but the main suggestion (rebuilding
>>>>>>> initramfs)
>>>>>>> doesn't seem to work.  Thoughts anyone?